Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language [2015] paperback ZBOAR '[McCarthy] writers prose as clean

'[McCarthy] writers prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph

This is not a life story

It is the world of the very small

The comic relief is perfectly timed

Nicholas Shakespeare's collected stories take us across oceans and continents into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face

Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language [2015] paperback ZBOAR '[McCarthy] writers prose as clean'Dazzling Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct as innate to us as flying is to geese Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' Independent 'A marvellously readable book illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language